As school districts try to interpret last week鈥檚 U.S. Supreme Court decision on school desegregation, editorial pages across the country have offered the following opinions:
The two major newspapers covering the districts in the case were split. The Seattle Times ; Kentucky鈥檚 Lexington Herald-Leader said it was
Elsewhere, the , the , the Minneapolis , and Raleigh鈥檚 minced no words in their opposition to the 5-4 decision. and the both called it a step backwards, and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch found the majority opinion
On the other side, Denver鈥檚 Rocky Mountain News called the decision and The San Diego Union-Tribune characterized it as a
Kennedy鈥檚 opinion opens the door for more legal action, The Plain Dealer . Until then, The Oregonian tells districts to 鈥渓ook for new ways to fight inequality.鈥�
said The Des Moines Register, while also offering .
Columnists offered their own take. The Washington Post鈥榮 Eugene Robinson ; Seattle鈥檚 Danny Westneat found himself ; The Atlanta Journal-Constitution鈥榮 Jim Wooten thinks ; and St. Petersburg鈥檚 Thomas C. Tobin wrote about .
